Leviticus 5

Revised Geneva Translation

5 “Also, if anyone has sinned—if he has heard the voice of an oath—and he can witness to it (whether he has seen or known of it) and does not do so, he shall be guilty.

² “Or if anyone touches any unclean thing—whether it is a carcass of an unclean beast or a carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean creeping things—and is not aware of it, he is still unclean and has offended.

³ “Or if he touches any uncleanness of man (whatever uncleanness defiles him) and is not aware of it, and afterward comes to the knowledge of it, he has sinned.

⁴ “Or if anyone swears and pronounces with his lips to do evil or to do good (whichever it is that a man shall pronounce with an oath) —and it is hidden from him and then afterward he knows that he has offended in one of these points—

⁵ “when he has sinned in any of these things, he shall confess that he has sinned in it.

⁶ “Therefore, he shall bring his Trespass Offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed — a female from the flock, a lamb or a female goat for a Sin Offering — and the Priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.

⁷ “But if he is not able to bring a sheep, he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the LORD (one for a Sin Offering and the other for a Burnt Offering) for his trespass which he has committed.

⁸ “So he shall bring them to the Priest, who shall offer the Sin Offering first, and wring the neck of it asunder, but not take it clean off.

⁹ “Afterward, he shall sprinkle from the blood of the Sin Offering upon the side of the Altar. And the rest of the blood shall be shed at the foot of the Altar. It is a Sin Offering.

¹⁰ “Also, he shall offer the second for a Burnt Offering, as is just. So shall the Priest make an atonement for him (for his sin which he has committed) and it shall be forgiven him.

¹¹ “But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he who has sinned shall bring for his offering a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, for a Sin Offering. He shall put no oil on it, nor put any incense on it, for it is a Sin Offering.

¹² “Then he shall bring it to the Priest. And the Priest shall take a handful of it, for its remembrance, and burn it upon the Altar with the offerings of the LORD, made by fire. It is a Sin Offering.

¹³ “So the Priest shall make an atonement for him, as touching his sin that he has committed in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him. And the remainder shall be the Priest’s, as the Meat Offering.”

¹⁴ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁵ “If any person transgresses and sins through ignorance by taking away things consecrated to the LORD, he shall then bring for his Trespass Offering to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flock —worth two shekels of silver by your estimation, after the shekel of the Sanctuary—for a Trespass Offering.

¹⁶ “So he shall restore that in which he has offended regarding the holy thing and shall add a fifth more to it and give it to the Priest. So, the Priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the Trespass Offering. And it shall be forgiven him.

¹⁷ “Also, if anyone sins and does any of the Commandments of the LORD which ought not to be done, and yet does not know it, he still sins and bears his iniquity.

¹⁸ “Then he shall bring a ram, without blemish, out of the flock (worth two shekels in your estimation), for a Trespass Offering to the Priest. And the Priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance in which he erred and was not aware. So it shall be forgiven him.

¹⁹ “This is the Trespass Offering for the trespass committed against the LORD.”